"[W]e will never look at the world in the same way again."--Devorah Bennu, Science Magazine

"It's a grand time-and-space voyage of the imagination, the drift of continents, the appearance and rise and fall and extinction of new species, the human story with all its tragedy and complexity.... Read this one, a great pleasure, and...at the end of the book you will be someone different." --Dan Agin, Huffington Post